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- the present invention relates to mobile wireless communication systems and in particular, to methods for transmitting data while using combined frequency reuse.
- MBSFN Multicast broadcast single frequency network
- MS-Mobile Subscriber station also used as mobile terminal
- OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access
- a cellular network is characterized by having a plurality of BS each with the capacity to transmit and receive data in a range of frequencies. Unlike a system with a single transmitter where only one transmission can be sent over any given frequency, the cellular network can reuse the same radio frequency in a different area for transmitting completely different information.
- frequency reuse has its price and there is an inevitably amount of inter-cell interference from the signal transmitted by other BS which use the very same frequency.
- the frequency reuse factor is the rate at which the same frequency can be used in the network, and commonly known as simply reuse K (or 1/K according to some) denoting the number of cells which cannot use the same frequencies for transmission. Typical values for a frequency reuse factor are 3, 4, 7, 9 and 12 (or 1 ⁇ 3, 1 ⁇ 4, 1/7, 1/9 and 1/12 depending on notation). In the following description the first type of notation is used to denote the reuse factors.
- each antenna is directed to a different direction and by doing so they divide the cell into N sectors.
- This division enables implementing a cell frequency reuse as discussed above.
- reuse K is used to encompass frequency reuse within a base station which is part of a wireless deployment, calculated for a partition within the frequency channel which uses a power level higher than a given threshold.
- a given frequency channel will be transmitting at high power, while the other two sectors will not utilize that frequency channel at all.
- Operating in accordance with reuse 1 mode allows all sectors to utilize the same frequency channel.
- inter-cell interference caused by the cell frequency reuse
- an inter-sector interference is caused by the sector frequency reuse.
- FIG. 1A and FIG. 1B The two types of interference areas arising in reuse 1 scenario are shown in FIG. 1A for DL.
- the inter-cell interference occurs at the cell margin where the two adjacent cells overlap.
- the present invention seeks to provide a solution to the above problems by improving at least some of the following parameters: cell edge user throughput, spectral efficiency and cell coverage for both UL and DL, increased spectral efficiency and broadcast traffic support and the like.
- the method provided by the present invention allows limiting or even avoiding contentions of sub-carriers, by combining different reuse modes with orthogonal frequency partitions.
- the received signal quality by an MS may be improved by scheduling the MS, in the frequency partitions with higher frequency reuse factor, due to lower interference levels. This will be helpful for MSs located around cell boundary or for MSs that suffer severe inter-cell interference.
- BS may use the entire frequency channel in accordance with reuse 1 mode as long as the transmissions in this reuse mode would not create interference to the communications using higher reuse modes. This will enable the BS to serve more MSs with increased data rates and achieve better spectral efficiency.
- a method for transmitting a combined frequency reuse communication in a wireless network wherein said wireless network comprising at least two base stations each of which is operative to transmit communications to at least three sectors and wherein communications transmitted by each of said at least two base stations are transmitted along a plurality of sub-channels associated with given frequency channel partitions, the method is characterized in that at least one of the transmitted combined frequency reuse communication frames comprises at least one sub-channel operative in accordance with a first reuse scheme and at least one other sub-channel operative in accordance with a reuse scheme which is different from the first reuse scheme.
- the transmission power for conveying communications along at least one sub-channel assigned in each of the at least three sectors according to the first reuse scheme is substantially equal to that used for conveying communications according to said first reuse scheme in each of the other sectors, and wherein the at least one other sub-channel operative in accordance with the other reuse scheme, is adapted to convey communications at a transmission power higher than a first pre-defined threshold in at least one of the at least 3 sectors and to convey communications in at least one other of the 3 sectors at a transmission power level being lower the first pre-defined threshold but higher than a second pre-defined threshold.
- the plurality of sub-channels is divided into a plurality of groups, and wherein at least one of the plurality of groups is characterized in that all sub-channels comprised therein are transmitted using substantially the same transmitting power.
- the sub-channels groups constitute one or more deployment sets.
- a set is characterized by one or more of the following parameters: type of frequency reuse scheme, sector of action and transmitting power.
- the plurality of sub-channels is divided into a plurality of groups, and wherein at least one of the plurality of groups is capable of modifying at least one transmission parameter of at least one of the sub-channels comprised therein.
- At least one group of sub-channels is allocated for transmitting communications in at least two sectors.
- At least one group of sub-channels is used for transmitting communications in at least one sector at a power level higher than a pre-defined threshold. More preferably, the same group of sub-channels is used by at least one other sector, provided that the level of interference to the at least one sector does not exceed a predetermined level. Still more preferably, the interference to that at least one sector is mitigated by using lower power or interference cancellation techniques.
- the communications transmitted by the at least one of the two base stations are transmitted according to a pattern whereby at least two alternate OFDMA frames constituting a super-frame, and wherein at least one sub-channel comprised in one of the frames constituting the super frame is operative in accordance with a different reuse scheme than any of the sub-channels comprised in an alternate frame.
- At least one of the groups of sub-channels used in accordance with a reuse 1 scheme is split into unicast sub-channels (for exchanging regular data) and into broadcast and/or multicast sub-channels.
- communications conveyed along sub-channels used for conveying broadcast data are transmitted while using a higher sub-channel power than the power used for communications transmitted along sub-channels used for conveying unicast data.
- a method for transmitting a combined frequency reuse communication in a wireless network wherein said wireless network comprising at least two base stations each of which is operative to transmit communications to at least three sectors and wherein at least two different frequency channel partitions are each associated with a different group of sub-channels, and wherein transmission of control information associated with each group of sub-channels is characterized by having a different modulation scheme and/or channel coding and/or MIMO matrix coding mode.
- FIG. 1A illustrates inter-cell and inter-sector interference in DL transmissions carried out according to prior art methods
- FIG. 1B shows inter-cell and inter-sector interference in UL transmissions carried out according to prior art methods
- FIG. 2 illustrates a schematic frame structure suitable for 3 sectors deployments, with a first type of allocation by which control information is transmitted in DLSET 0 ;
- FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic frame structure suitable for 3 sectors deployments, with a second type of allocation by which control information is transmitted in DLSET 0 ;
- FIG. 4 illustrates a schematic frame structure suitable for 4 sector deployments
- FIG. 5 shows a schematic frame structure suitable for flexible SET allocations
- FIG. 6 presents an example of frame structure as used by a specific sector in the base station, as Sector 2 (North);
- FIG. 7 shows a schematic example of power distribution as used by a specific sector in the base station (sector 2 );
- FIG. 8 shows a schematic example of power distribution as used by another specific sector in the base station (sector 3 );
- FIG. 9 illustrates a schematic DL super-frame structure suitable for 3 sector deployments with alternate frames
- FIG. 10 illustrates a schematic UL super-frame structure suitable for 3 sector deployments with alternate frames
- FIG. 11 presents a DL frame structure suitable for 3 sector deployments, with time split of the frame
- FIG. 12 presents a UL frame structure suitable for 3 sector deployments, with time split of the frame
- FIG. 13 shows a schematic presentation of the DL inter-cell interference using an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 14 shows the results of a deployment simulation of reuse 3 for rural deployment environment
- FIGS. 15A and 15B illustrate a schematic frame for FDD operation
- FIG. 16 presents a schematic frame divided to zones for DL MIMO Transmission Scheme.
- frame or “sub-frame”, used in connection with the drawings, is used to denote a time interval in which the allocation of sub-channels for different reuse modes remains un-changed.
- one of the objects of the method provided by the present invention is to allow the operator to obtain an increased spectral efficiency by reusing the frequency channel in each sector and at the same time to reduce the interference.
- Example frames implementing some of the principles of the present invention are described below.
- FIG. 1A presents an interference problem for DL (downlink) at the cell margin, where two adjacent cells and sometimes cells that are located apart, might create interference to each other's transmissions of the desired signal, causing in the worst case, an average negative SIR (Signal to Interference Ratio) of ⁇ (5 . . . 6) dB per some subcarriers (e.g. 3 dB from adjacent sectors, and another approximately 2 dB from the more remote interfering sectors). If we consider the channel fluctuations and the Doppler effects the interference levels on specific sub-carriers might be even worse.
- SIR Signal to Interference Ratio
- FIG. 1A shows the deployment problem with Reuse 1 , for areas in which the inter-cell or inter-sector interference are dominant.
- the inter-cell interference areas are 110 - 115 and the inter-sector interference areas are 120 - 122 .
- the desired signal's direction is marked by continuous lines ( 130 - 131 ), while the interfering links are marked by dashed lines ( 140 - 147 ).
- FIG. 1.B shows the same interference areas but this time for UL.
- 150 - 155 are the inter-cell interference areas, and the inter-sector interference areas are 160 - 162 .
- the desired signal's direction is marked with continuous lines ( 170 ), while the interfering links are marked with dashed lines ( 180 - 185 ).
- the reuse 1 significantly reduces the peak data rate and is therefore avoided in practical deployment solutions. Instead, in many deployments the reuse 3 solution is preferred. In other words, a reuse 3 solution is practically found to be more adequate for addressing coexistence problems at cell margins.
- certain embodiments of the method provided by present invention enable different framing possibilities in the frequency domain, more suitable to OFDMA, in a combined time-frequency approach as well as in time domain only.
- the support of more stringent delay requirements will impact on the implementation complexity.
- the IEEE 802.16m and LTE frame provided, enables to combine reuse 1 and reuse 3 operations, into a single frequency channel.
- the term “reuse 1 ” implies that all the sectors associated with a base station use the same frequency partition, while the term “reuse 3 ” implies that each frequency partition is used by a single sector from among a group of three sectors, at a power level higher than a threshold.
- Such partitions each of which includes a number of sub-channels, are called DLSET and ULSET for respective DL and UL transmissions.
- OFDMA the active carriers are grouped in subsets of subcarriers, and such a sub-set is also referred to herein as sub-channel.
- FIG. 2 Let us consider an example of a frame as described in FIG. 2 , which is partitioned between reuse 1 and reuse 3 sets.
- the reuse 1 sets will be used in all the sectors, while every one of the reuse 3 sets would be allocated to a specific sector, and be used while applying high transmission power.
- Every set is assigned with a number of sub-channels, preferably in a way that avoids collisions between subcarriers allocated to different sets.
- the frequency band in this example comprises a total of 60 sub-channels for DL transmissions and 70 sub-channels for UL transmissions.
- the left part of this FIG. describes the allocation for DL transmissions while the right side describes the allocation for UL transmissions.
- the DL part one may note a division to 4 sets:
- DLSET 0 this set is intended for reuse 1 . It comprises 30 sub-channels and is further split into multiple sub-sets, which preferably use different maximum sub-carrier power levels. N sub-channels are used to broadcast in a high power, and N-30 sub-channels are used to unicast in a medium power (unicast transmission is used to denote sending of information packets to a single destination, as opposed to broadcast transmission which refers to transmitting to all destinations). The different modes have different MAPs but the same preambles.
- DLSET 1 refers 10 sub-channels, wherein sector 1 functions as the master, transmitting in reuse 3 configuration, while sectors 2 and 3 function as slaves and transmitting in reuse 1 .
- sector 1 functions as the master and to sectors 2 and 3 as slaves it means that sectors 2 and 3 may transmit as long as they do not create interference to the communications exchanged in sector 1 .
- sector 1 operating in reuse 3
- high transmission power can be applied only by this sector.
- sector 2 and 3 as operating in reuse 1 it means that they reuse the same frequency resource as that allocated to sector 1 .
- the same frequency resource (sub-carriers) can be used by different sectors at the same time, as long as they do not create interference to communications of the master sector for that specific frequency resource.
- interference mitigation or cancellation like MIMO/advanced antenna techniques using different pre-coding matrixes and/or power rules, to be described in continuation.
- Based on the slave rule there are cases when not all the potential Slave sectors will be allowed to operate in parallel, creating situations when only one master and one slave sector will use the same frequency partition.
- DLSET 2 comprising 10 sub-channels, wherein sector 2 functions as the master transmitting in reuse 3 configuration, while sectors 1 and 3 function as slaves, transmitting in reuse 1 .
- DLSET 3 comprising 10 sub-channels, wherein sector functions as the master transmitting in reuse 3 configuration, while sectors 1 and 2 function as slaves transmitting in reuse 1 .
- this set is intended for reuse 1 and comprises 22 sub-channels.
- ULSET 1 comprising 16 sub-channels, wherein sector functions as the master and is operative to receive transmissions in a reuse 3 configuration, while sectors 2 and 3 function as slaves and are adapted to receive transmissions in a reuse 1 configuration.
- ULSET 2 comprising 16 sub-channels, wherein sector functions as the master and is operative to receive transmissions in a reuse 3 configuration, while sectors 1 and 3 function as slaves and are adapted to receive transmissions in a reuse 1 configuration.
- ULSET 3 comprising 16 sub-channels, wherein sector functions as the master and is operative to receive transmissions in a reuse 3 configuration, while sectors 1 and 2 function as slaves and are adapted to receive transmissions in a reuse 1 configuration.
- Every DLSET may be transmitted with its own preamble, MCH (“MAP Control Header”) and MAP.
- MCH MAP Control Header
- MAP MAP Control Prefix data structure which clarifies how the MAP messages shall be decoded.
- the MCH and the MAP are sometimes referred to herein as a “Control Channel”.
- the DLSET 0 intended for reuse 1 , is further split into multiple sub-sets, which preferably use different maximum sub-carrier power levels, like the data sub-set—DLSET 01 and the broadcast sub-set—DLSET 02 .
- the broadcast zone intended for the E-MBS, includes its own MCH 02 and MAP and can use much higher sub-channel powers than used for all other SETs or sub-sets. Due to the adjacent sub-carrier interference, the carriers allocated for the Broadcast sub-set should be separated by one or more guard carriers from the carriers allocated to the other zones. A number of sub-channels are dedicated to the Broadcast zone.
- the duration of the Broadcast Zone is preferably programmable and more preferably, is included in its private MAP.
- the SETS intended for reuse 3 are referred to as SET 1 , SET 2 and SETS. These sets may include their own preambles, MCH and MAPs and may be transmitted using the maximum sub-carrier power assigned for the unicast services.
- the full frequency channel may be used in every sector, similarly to the way it may be used in accordance with the reuse 1 scheme.
- sector 2 enjoys the interference mitigation properties of reuse 3 .
- Such a configuration may be considered as using “overlapped reuse modes”.
- FIG. 4 presents a frame structure for a combined frequency reuse for deployments using 4 sectors, combining reuse 1 and reuse 4 allocations. An additional Master set was introduced for matching the reuse 4 deployment.
- a frame modified in accordance with the present invention would preferably start at a pre-determined mode, with the possibility that the MCH and/or the MAP determine the actual sub-channel/sub-carrier allocation to the different sets.
- FIG. 5 illustrates an embodiment by which data is transmitted while using different allocation relative to the initial MCH/MAP transmission.
- the MCH at the start of the frame has pre-defined allocated sub-carriers and is transmitted with pre-defined parameters, as modulation, coding, cell_id, permutation, etc.
- the Map prefix transmitted during the MCH may include parameters to correctly decode the associated MAP (coding, duration) and a pointer indicating the start of the zone in which the MAP is transmitted.
- the MCH may also indicate the structure of the zone and point to one or more other MCHs.
- a sector may use the entire available bandwidth, but each set had its own rules of maximum power usage for the sub-channels included therein.
- Sector 2 could typically use part of the reuse 1 area for broadcasts and another part for unicasts.
- the transmitted power in this set is lower than the maximum unicast power allowed in DLSET 2 , due to the fact that it can transmit the BS unicasts at the maximum sub-channel power.
- DLSET 2 is also referred to as a master set and DLSET 1 , DLSET 3 are referred to as slave sets.
- FIG. 7 shows an example of maximum power density levels (per sub-channel) between sets for the same BS sector as described above.
- the sub-channels assigned to DLSET 1 and DLSET 3 may also be used, however, the power limitation per sub-channel should be such as not to create interference to the sectors using the DLSET 1 or DLSET 3 as master allocations.
- An example of a practical approach may be to limit the transmitted power per sub-channel of the slave systems to a certain level, such as 12 dB lower than the maximum BS transmission power in master state, or may use collaborative MIMO techniques for reducing the interference.
- the sub-channels comprised in the slave set transmit their preambles at attenuated power per sub-carrier. They may use their own MCH and MAP, however in order to reduce the receiver complexity, a more practical approach may be that the MAPs relevant to the slave sets are transmitted as part of the reuse 1 unicast (MAP 01 ) and/or part of the master unicast (MAP 2 in this example).
- sector 2 may use 50% of its sub-channels in reuse 1 .
- the remaining 50% is equally divided between the three sets used in reuse 3 , every set getting 16.7% of the channel bandwidth.
- sector 2 would get 67% of the channel in the reuse 1 and its master set. This is similar to the fractional frequency reuse (2 ⁇ 3), used today for reuse 1 simulations, however the inter-cell interference may drastically be reduced.
- FIG. 8 shows the power distributions per sets in sector 3 . It can be seen that the sub-channels using the master power level (maximum power per sub-channel) applied for the DLSET 3 use a different sub-channel partition (set) from the sub-channels using the master allocation in sector 2 .
- the MSs transmitting in the master ULSET can use the maximum power, while those transmitting in the slave sets are required not to create interference to the master sector using the same frequency partition. This requirement can be fulfilled either by limiting the transmitted power or by implementing interference cancellation scheme by using matrix pre-coding (MIMO techniques).
- MIMO techniques matrix pre-coding
- the UL frame includes a special zone, preferably to be used in conjunction with a pro-active opportunistic scheduling and eventually with the UL sounding.
- This zone named “UL sub-channel selection zone”, is used for the determination of the “best available channel”.
- a sector will use this zone for the sub-channels included in reuse 1 mode and for those included in the master reuse 3 set.
- the scope of this zone is to assess the best available UL sub-channel for opportunistic scheduling and to increase the UL cell data throughput by using the best available sub-channel i.e. interference mitigation is achieved by setting different power control schemes.
- the method provided enables the use of UL sub-channels sounding in getting the information regarding the channel frequency-dependent attenuation and phase.
- the method provided enables the combination of the reuse 1 activity and reuse 3 activity in alternate frames forming a super-frame.
- the reuse 1 activity may be concentrated for example in the first frame, while the reuse 3 activity may be concentrated in a second frame.
- FIG. 9 presents such a combined approach for DL where the MSs receive the relevant DL traffic every two frames
- FIG. 10 illustrates, a corresponding UL allocation.
- this embodiment may be associated with higher accumulated delay and reduced granularity, limited by the frame duration.
- two frames are allocated for the reuse 1 activity while one frame for the reuse 3 activity.
- the frame is divided between reuse 1 and reuse 3 .
- the overhead due to MAC headers and MAPS will be higher.
- each of the DL and UL sub-frames is divided between the reuse 1 and reuse 3 operations.
- each BS sector Due to the fact that no MSs are connected to the BS at the initial phase, each BS sector measures the UL interference created by the sectors and uses the ULSET enjoying the minimum interference experience.
- FIGS. 13 and 14 Some of the obtainable advantages of using sets inside the frame structure are presented in FIGS. 13 and 14 , where it is shown how the usage of the reuse 3 at cell margin and the reduction of the power for the sub-channels using reuse 1 operation cause a dramatic reduction of the inter-cell interference.
- the interference picture in the cellular deployment in FIG. 13 demonstrates the improved situation at the cell boundary. Still, one would experience some interference from the other cells.
- the level of interferers is illustrated in the DL transmission as dashed lines in FIG. 13 .
- the strongest interferers are Sectors 1 from BS 5 and BS 4 , which typically may contribute together 8 dB S/I.
- the aggregated remote interferers can decrease the S/I around 6 dB.
- the S/I ratio has been dramatically improved from about ⁇ 5 dB to approximately +6 dB. This improvement will be translated into both cell size and throughput.
- a simpler calculation may show that with the assumption that 50% of the available spectrum will be use in reuse 1 and the rest in reuse 3 , for downlink, one would get:
- FIG. 14 presents the results of a deployment simulation, showing the SIR for reuse 3 in a cellular deployment, rural propagation model, interference limited, outdoor MS, on a DLSET. It is possible to see that the cell margin is covered at SIR of 6.8 dB, which corresponds to the calculation above.
- the FDD operation can be made suitable for H-FDD (Half-duplex FDD) SS (Subscriber Station) operation.
- H-FDD Hyf-duplex FDD
- SS Subscriber Station
- the SSs′ operation shall not be scheduled during the preambles, MCH and MAP transmission, as exemplified in FIGS. 15A (downlink) and 15 B (uplink).
- the existing 802.16e ZONEs in a frame are basically differentiated according to the used approach for increasing the range and capacity.
- An SS has to find the ZONE location based on the decoding first the MAP at the start of frame, even though the reception of the MAP itself might be affected by high interference. This limits the range of operation and also may increase the requested time for MAP transmission, due to the low modulations that would be used.
- the most efficient allocation of ZONEs within every set is done if the allocation is as long as possible in frequency domain, in order to reduce the overhead generated by eventual preambles, MAPs and MAC headers.
- a zone can be organized with different bursts according to the modulation and coding used. The spectral efficiency is increased if we can directly use the high performance zones, instead of starting the operation in the frame by using lower performance zones.
- FIG. 16 shows a division of a set into zones. In this example we begin with three zones at the ZONE start and later on another two zones are used.
- the respective preambles transmitted are specific to the zones used inside the set. If potentially there are more zones than those used at the beginning of the frame, those zones might be scheduled in the next frame or after ending the starting zones.
- the MAPs are transmitted using the suitable matrix. Only the MCH might use a pre-known robust modulation, however due to its short duration, its impact on the general overhead will be much lower.
- the MCH location (sub-channel number) may be known a priori or may be indicated by the preamble coding.
- MCHi will preferably indicate not only those parameters essential for the decoding the MAP of zone i, but also the coordinates for the start of this zone and another two zones, zone m and zone n.
- the MCH will therefore preferably include:
- SET 0 starts with one broadcast zone and two unicast zones.
- the unicast zones may indicate the start of the proceeding zones, by the starting coordinates of the ZCHm.
- ZONE 4 in reuse 1 area takes advantage of the fact that the broadcasted traffic is reduced when transmitting MPEG inter-frames.
- the MCH at the start of the frame points to another MCH within the frame. This approach as exemplified herein in SET 0 may be referred to as a “linked-MCH approach”.
- the MCH may have fixed locations within the set. Such an example is illustrated in FIG. 16 for SET 1 , SET 2 and SET 3 . There are 3 MCH fixed location at the start of DLSET 1 and another 3 fixed locations around the middle of DLSET 1 . This approach may be referred to as a “fixed MCH approach”. The need to indicate the next relevant zone over a number of frames may result due to the restrictions of the coexistence with other systems.
- the base station as well as the subscriber terminal of the present invention are preferably operative according to a standard wireless protocol.
- a standard wireless protocol may be OFDMA, cellular protocol, WiMax protocol, LTE protocol, and the like, all without departing from the scope of the present invention.
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- Capable of overlapping power-conditioned
reuse 1 andreuse 3 approaches within the same frame, to improve the frequency channel reuse, increase the SIR (“Signal to Interference Ratio”) at cell margin and to enable the inter cell/sector interference management; - Enable multiple MCH (“MAP Control Header”) and/or MAP message (i.e. medium access control message) transmission modes to increase SIR and spectral efficiency per transmission;
- Enable providing dedicated Reuse-1 zone to form a single frequency network for broadcast traffic;
- Allow coordinated UL (“uplink”) sub-channel selection zone for pro-active opportunistic scheduling; and
- Allow coordinated UL sounding
Interference Problem inReuse 1 Scenario
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- transmission of MAP (which comprises scheduling information for different down-link and up-link communications);
- high demanding traffic, such as IP-Video or Internet browsing, for which the probability of collisions between sub-carriers of adjacent cells may become too high;
- broadcast traffic transmissions, for which the collisions between sub-carriers of adjacent cells create a serious disadvantage, as for such type of transmissions, a relatively high QoS is expected.
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- Separation between broadcast and unicast transmissions as of the beginning of the preamble. MCH and MAPs for broadcast and unicast allocation of DLSET01 and DLSET02, respectively (
FIG. 3 ). This approach offers, best performance, with the disadvantage of more parallel processing requirements. However, in the following description reference is made to the variant illustrated inFIG. 2 . - Transmission of the broadcast preambles, MCH and MAP is first carried out over the full DLSET0, and proceeded with unicast MCH and MAP transmissions over DLSET01.
- Separation between broadcast and unicast transmissions as of the beginning of the preamble. MCH and MAPs for broadcast and unicast allocation of DLSET01 and DLSET02, respectively (
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- Every sector uses more than 67% of the available channel in a guaranteed mode;
- Additional 33% can be used if the scheduling and power levels will be such so as not to create interference to the Master allocations;
- Data rate in the areas using the
reuse 3 is improved according to the 11 dB difference, which means an improvement of at least 9 times:- 7 dB is due to changing from QPSK½ rep. 6 to QPSK½ (6 times)
- 3 dB is due to changing from QPSK ½ to QPSK ¾ (1.5 times).
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- type of the ZONEi (containing the MAP);
- permutation used;
- starting coordinates (sub-channel, number of consecutive sub-channels);
- modulation and coding of the zone's MAP;
- the duration of the zone;
- starting coordinates of ZCHm (the start may be at the same frame or over multiple frames);
- preamble indicator in zone m;
- starting coordinates of ZCHn (the start may be at the same frame or over multiple frames); and
- preamble indicator in zone n.
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